by Heather Laskin | Oct 4, 2016 | Awesome, Funny
This arrest was one for the books. Edie Simms, a 102-year-old Missouri woman, was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser Friday as officers helped her fulfill an unusual bucket list wish: getting arrested. Simms was seen being cheerfully escorted...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 16, 2016 | Awesome
In 1916, Israel Kristal was a motherless Jewish child whose father was away fighting in World War I and would soon be killed in action. He turned 13 without celebrating his bar mitzvah. A century later, Kristal will finally get the chance. Kristal, who is the oldest...
by Heather Laskin | Aug 28, 2016 | Awesome
The world’s oldest man has been named as Indonesian Mbah Gotho, who is 145 years old, with documentation that says he was born in 1870. Mr Gotho said he began preparing for his death in 1992, even having a gravestone made, but 24 years later he is still alive....
by Heather Laskin | Aug 20, 2016 | Awesome, Funny
Normally a story about a fireman climbing three stories to get to a 105-year-old woman’s apartment would be a frightening one, but this is not an ordinary story! Ivena Smailes, or “Aunt Ivy” as she is known, loves to think of wild and outlandish...
by Heather Laskin | Aug 18, 2016 | Inspiration
A Massachusetts woman turning 100 on Friday recently got an early birthday surprise: the high school graduation she never had over 80 years ago. Just before Clare Picciuto was supposed to start high school in the early 1930s, the Great Depression hit, according...